Cannabis Blog

Have you ever wondered what a 43,000 square foot indoor cannabis grow farm looks like? When I took a tour of Mindful this past February I had no idea what I was walking into. This facility goes all the way from seed to packaging and distribution and every single step in between.

I was particularly impressed with was their systems room and just how smooth the overall facility functioned. The employees there were happy and obviously hard at work, and it was clear that companies like this are who will set precedent for the cannabis industry and beyond.

Mindful is in both Colorado and Illinois and I would not be surprised if we see them in other states soon with the current pace of the cannabis industry.

Now that over half the country has voted to legalize medical marijuana and another half-dozen could do the same this coming November, isn’t it time to start discussing why non-violent marijuana busts still account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States?

Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests made between 2001 and 2010, 88 percent were for simply possessing pot, according to the ACLU, and not large amounts. Those figures haven’t changed much in the past decade.

It begs the question: why are nonviolent pot offenders still behind bars in the four states where recreational weed is totally legal?

Many people may wonder what the difference is between these terms, if any. The fact of the matter is that the answer to this question is deeply rooted behind years of propaganda and conjecture that have been fed to us by the U.S. Federal Government. These two terms actually mean the same thing, but the term Marijuana has everything to do with why this seemingly limitless plant is still federally prohibited in our country today.

‘Marijuana’ was a slang term that followed the many Mexican immigrants who were seeking refuge from civil war in the early 1900’s. Most people at that time didn’t realize that Cannabis and Marijuana were one and the same. The term ‘Marijuana’ was adopted by the propagandists of the time in an attempt to attach a racist and negative stigma to its public perception.